to shine, glitter → <cold steel> 2 realizations
NEW Realization 1
type Borrowing
language 1 Breton
language 2 Gothic
lexeme 1 mecet, micet
lexeme 2 meki
meaning 1 to glitter, to shine, to sparkle
direction →
meaning 2 sword (Acc.)
reference
comment The Celtic word is possibly the source of the Gothic name for the sword and later for the Slavic word меч (Одинцов 1982)
NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Classical Arabic
lexeme ʔazrạḳ-
meaning 1 shining, glittering zurḳ-u l-ʕuyūn-i
tith bright, shining eyes
direction →
meaning 2 spear, arrow min waḳʕ-i ʔazraḳ-a kal-kawkab-i
‘from the fall (hit) of a star like spear’
reference
comment Fischer 1965:47-55; the meaning of "shining" in a later period becomes "blue"

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